Re: Windows Server 2008 64 bit

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:28:13 +0200
> From: Aharon Robbins <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > > and I also don't see any reason why a 64 bit binary could not be
> > > compiled for Windows Server 2008 64 bit.
> >
> > Because there's no MinGW GCC port to 64-bit Windows yet?
> 
> Cygwin is probably an option

I'm not sure Cygwin supports 64-bit Windows builds, but I'm not an
expert on Cygwin.

> as is attempting to build with the Microsoft compiler.

I'm not even sure it will build, as all signs are this was not
attempted nor tested for a long time, even as 32-bit build, let alone
a 64-bit one.

One thing that should be kept in mind is that 64-bit Windows use a
different model than 64-bit Unices (a long is still 32 bit wide on
64-bit Windows).  Thus, code that compiles and works on 64-bit Unix
machines will not necessarily do so on 64-bit Windows.